Recently, Matt Wilson, who plays as “RetiredNavy” on WSOP.comand “miggs” on Ultimate Poker, became the champion of the first ever WSOP.com Online Nine. The freeroll was for the nine event winners of the WSOP.com Online Championships on the legal online poker site WSOP.com and awarded a colossal $50,000 to the winner.

“I’m going to invest it and keep playing poker,” Wilson told PocketFives when asked what his plans for the money were. “I’ve been playing poker for what seems like a long time. I started playing live and switched to online. When Black Friday happened, I switched back to live. I like online poker better. I have had better results online.” He said his “RetiredNavy” screen name is a ruse to trick players into thinking he is older and, thus, play differently against him. In reality, he’s 30 years old.

Wilson lives in Dallas, Texas, but periodically hits up Nevada for live and online poker tournaments. He recently flew in for UPC1, UPC2, and WSOPOC and said, “When I won the WSOPOC tournament, I didn’t know what they were going to do or that there was something special for the winners. I came to find out I was in the Online Nine sit and go, which is the type of poker game I started playing back in the PartyPoker days. Then, they told me it was an online sit and go and I thought I had an even bigger advantage since I had experience online. It all fell into place very nicely.”

Each person who won a WSOPOC event was seated in a different booth at one of the restaurants at the Rio in Las Vegas to play from nine entrants to two. Then, Wilson and his heads-up opponent finished on the stage of the Penn and Teller Theater prior to the finale of the WSOP Main Event. “It was cool,” Wilson said of the setup. “I liked it.” Wilson busted the WSOP Main Event on Day 5 in 2006.

Will he move to Nevada and play poker full-time or will he continue to commute from the land of oil fields and high-octane football? He commented, “I’d like to move. I have a home in Texas I can’t leave, though. I have a friend with an apartment in Las Vegas, so I can come help him with his bills for a month and play.”

For some background, Wilson is 30 years old and started playing poker when he was 21. Sit and gos were his initial passion and he has recently elevated his game to include MTTs. Visit WSOP.com, which is open to anyone physically located within the state of Nevada, for even more upcoming promotions.

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